2025 marks the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, and NASA's Earth Observatory commemorated the milestone with a satellite-based ...

The ISS feels impossibly far at 250 miles up, but lunar missions go 240,000 miles out - over 1000x the distance. It's a ...

A small asteroid will pass relatively close to Earth, highlighting the importance of global tracking and research. Scientists ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

U.S. startup Spacecoin said on Wednesday it had successfully sent secured information through space in what it said was a ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, should it be deflected or blown up? A paper from NASA scientists and ...

Fresh analysis of Cassini data has revealed new complex organic molecules inside ice grains spewing from Enceladus. These discoveries strengthen the case that the moon’s underground ocean hosts ...

Because the known Venus co-orbitals have strong eccentricity, they can move farther away from Venus and closer to Earth, thus becoming easier to see in our sky at twilight, when the Sun is below the ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

After decades of operating satellites alongside one another with very little communication, China, one of the world’s most ...

What happens to NASA and its operations in Florida during the government shutdown? Will rocket launches be delayed? Is Kennedy Space Center open?

An agreement to study a private astronaut mission using an Orion spacecraft is a step by Lockheed Martin in efforts to offer ...